Inbox Redesign

[momijizukamori]

This post is for feedback for the redesigned inbox! As this is a redesign rather than a port, 'it's different' isn't useful feedback - please let me know how that difference is impacting you!

In particular, I'd like feedback from phone/tablet users, and from people who regularly get inbox messages in languages that use different character sets than English (languages that use Cyrillic, various East Asian languages, etc) - a lot of the elements of the redesign were meant to address problems with these.

Fixed Issues

• 'Unread' message filter missing from the navigation sidebar
  
• All entries are showing up collapsed, even unread ones.
  
• Odd word-breaking behavior in subjects and messages
  
• Action/navigation buttons are no longer in the footer as well
  
• Spacing between subject and timestamp
  
• Have to click on the checkbox rather than anywhere on the message to select it
  
• Expand/collapse does not work on read messages
  
• 'Delete all for this entry'/'Mark all read for this entry' does not work
  
• Selected messages aren't highlighted
  
• Intermittant weirdness/failures when using the in-message comment moderation tools
  
• The bottom message on one page is duplicated at the top of the next page
  
• Clicking a link in a message also causes that message to get marked as selected.
  
• Missing link to the beta comm in the header
  
• No confirmation dialogue for 'Delete All'
  
• Deleting messages via JS causes expanded/collapsed status to reset on other messages on the page.
  
• Current page button color is incorrect in all site schemes
  
• Not enough space between compose button and manage/refresh links
  
• Following reply link does not mark message as read
  
• Actions doesn't work with JS off
  
• Links in read messages aren't muted in color
  
• Images embedded in inbox notifications overflow badly
  

Fixed But Not Live

Known Issues

• Navigation buttons reflow in a kind of ugly way on some screen sizes
  
• Not enough space between action buttons
  
• Mark All Read button doesn't update text on press
  
• No warning when you've hit the max number of flagged messages (just silent failure)
  
• Left-clicking on message actions is slow and does not always correctly redirect.
  

Possible Tweaks

• Separate filters for comments and entries
  
• Wording for buttons
  

EDIT: A proposal for alternate button interaction, to cut down on the number of action buttons for people with JS on (no-JS would still get a slightly cluttered view):

• if nothing is selected, the two buttons are 'Mark All Read' and 'Delete All'
  
• if anything is selected, 'Delete All' becomes 'Delete Selected'
  
• if anything selected is read, 'Mark All Read' becomes 'Mark Read' (or possibly 'Mark Selected Read') - a mix of read and unread marked would get this
  
• if all selected are read, 'Mark All Read' becomes 'Mark Unread' (or 'Mark Selected Unread'
  

Comments

[angeburgers]

dusts off this ancient journal

I haven't encountered any major bugs so these two are just things I've noticed over time while messing with the beta. Overall it's very nice, even if the buttons on tropo purple feel too dark. But main things

Vivaldi 3.5 is the browser, which is a chromium ripoff so just loop it under "Chrome, but with vertical tabs and some weird busted code in it"

1) On the left, above the big "New Message" button is the Refresh and Manage settings. The problem is on my browser they're essentially right on top of each other by barely a pixel, so attempt to click anything just automatically hits the New Message button. Pic of what I mean. If there's any way to turn the Refresh/Manage into buttons, or just move them somewhere else it'd be fine.

2) My eyes are all kinds of jank and can't see contrast well, so having new messages having bold headers in the old inbox was really nice. I think it kind of grays out some of the text for read ones? But it's not enough to differentiate any of the text for my jank eyes and it's causing migraines to look at the new inbox for too long.

I have to swap back to the old one for eye reasons, but I'm genuine loving the new inbox so far. Thanks for all the hard work o/

[momijizukamori]

Oh, someone on discord mentioned the lack of space between the links and the button, and then I forgot to write it down so it slipped out of my mind again - thanks! You're also not the first person to bring up contrast issues, so I will think on how we can improve that.